Xenocynus
Appearance
Xenocynus Temporal range:
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Clade: | Metatheria |
Genus: | †Xenocynus |
Species: | †X. crypticus
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Binomial name | |
†Xenocynus crypticus Carneiro et. al., 2024
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Xenocynus is an extinct genus of metatherian mammal that lived in Brazil during the Eocene. It contains a single species, Xenocynus crypticus.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ Carneiro, L. M.; Bampi, H.; Rangel, C. C.; Guimarães, B. M. G.; Silva, R. C.; Oliveira, é. V. (July 2024). "A new metatherian (Mammalia) from the Itaboraí basin (Early Eocene), Brazil: Implications to trophic niche partitioning between large-sized "didelphoid-like" metatherians". Journal of South American Earth Sciences. 139: 104895. doi:10.1016/j.jsames.2024.104895. Retrieved 15 December 2024 – via Elsevier Science Direct.